[NeMoClaw][Ubuntu + Docker CE] Ollama is offered during onboarding even when no local models are installed, leading to a misleading default model selection and late failure

[JoyceChenNV]

Description

When Ollama is installed and running but has no local models pulled, NemoClaw onboarding still presents Ollama as a valid inference option and shows nemotron-3-nano:30b as a selectable model. After selection, onboarding fails later with model not found. This is misleading because the UI implies a usable local

model exists when it does not.

Reproduction Steps

1. Install Ollama on Ubuntu.
2. Ensure Ollama is running.
3. Confirm ollama list is empty.
4. Run curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh | bash.
5. During onboarding, choose Local Ollama.
6. Observe that nemotron-3-nano:30b is shown as the available model.
7. Select that model and continue.

Environment

• OS: Ubuntu
• Container runtime: Docker CE
• GPU: Available
• Ollama: Installed
• Ollama models: None (ollama list is empty)
• NemoClaw install method: curl -fsSL https://www.nvidia.com/nemoclaw.sh | bash

Debug Output

Logs

Checklist

• I confirmed this bug is reproducible
• I searched existing issues and this is not a duplicate

[cr7258]

Fix this issue: #815

[cr7258]

This issue has also been fixed in this PR merged: #648
I have verified the changes locally:

[2/7] Configuring inference (NIM)
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Detected local inference option: Ollama
  Select one explicitly to use it. Press Enter to keep NVIDIA Endpoints.


  Inference options:
    1) NVIDIA Endpoints
    2) OpenAI
    3) Other OpenAI-compatible endpoint
    4) Anthropic
    5) Other Anthropic-compatible endpoint
    6) Google Gemini
    7) Local Ollama (localhost:11434) — running (suggested)

  Choose [1]: 7
  ✓ Using Ollama on localhost:11434

  Ollama starter models:
    1) qwen2.5:7b
    2) nemotron-3-nano:30b
    3) Other...

  No local Ollama models are installed yet. Choose one to pull and load now.

  Choose model [1]: 1
  Pulling Ollama model: qwen2.5:7b
pulling manifest
pulling 2bada8a74506:  14% ▕██████████████                                                                                        ▏ 648 MB/4.7 GB   11 MB/s   5m40